Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.
Effective team leaders adjust their style to provide what the group can't provide for itself.
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.
In getting good results team leaders become conductor rather than driver, enabling others to play the right music, not by hands-on domination of all decisions and execution, but by providing inspiration, motivation and stimulus.
Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis.
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
One man cannot make a team.
Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you're the CEO.
A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.
People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.
With an enthusiastic team you can achieve almost anything.
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